The "Textured Tapestry of Existence"

I will meet with Susan, the chaplain coordinator of the Hospice House on February 27^th and the finale decision for the residency will take place later that week.

If it works, the residency will start in September and will last one year. I remain serene but my thoughts have been gravitating a lot  toward this possibility…  

What kind of help and care is a chaplain able to bring to a hospice patient? Judith Leipzig wrote a beautiful article on her experience in a hospice service at the Calvary Hospital in the Bronx. It can be found at this link.

http://blog.onbeing.org/post/11176428414/hope-at-the-end-of-life                   

I translated parts of it in my French blog – I found out Judith’s rich writing was much more difficult to translate than I had thought!  

Judith Leipzig shares what she learned as a hospice chaplain and her discovery of what she can bring to patients at the very end of life: not a service, but a presence and a profound listening that provides the patient with a sense of meaning and a renewed and deep connection to what Judith calls the “textured tapestry of existence”.